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" Ghostbusters " is a 1984 song recorded by Ray Parker, Jr. as the theme to the film of the same name that starred Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd. It hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100 on August 11 in 1984, and stayed there for three weeks. It also peaked at number two on the UK Singles Chart on 16 September 1984, where it stayed for three weeks. The song is performed in the key of B major.
It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Music, Original Song, but lost to Stevie Wonder's "I Just Called to Say I Love You".
Background
According to Parker, he was approached by the film's producers to create a theme song for the film. Unfortunately, he only had a few days to do so and the film's title seemed impossible to include in any lyrics. However, when watching television late at night, Parker saw a cheap commercial for a local service that reminded him that the film had a similar commercial featured for the fictional business. This inspired him to write the song as a pseudo-advertising jingle that the business could have commissioned as a promotion.
Parker was later the defendant in a copyright-infringement lawsuit which claimed "Ghostbusters" was too similar in musical structure to "I Want a New Drug", written and performed by Huey Lewis and the News (more specifically, the guitar riff which runs through the song). "I Want a New Drug" was a U.S. top-ten hit earlier the same year. The two parties settled out of court. Details of the settlement (specifically, that Parker paid Lewis a settlement) were confidential until 2001, when Lewis commented on the payment in an episode of VH1's Behind the Music . Parker subsequently sued Lewis for breaching confidentiality; the lawsuit is ongoing. Ironically, Lewis had at one point been asked to record a theme song for the movie, but turned it down for other commitments.
In later years, AutoNation adopted the theme for their advertising campaign. In the United Kingdom, the song is parodied with Parker himself being featured in a commercial advertising direct enquiries line 118 118.
The song re-entered the UK Top 75 on 2nd November 2008 at #49.
Lindsey Buckingham claims to have been approached to write the Ghostbusters theme based on his successful contribution to Harold Ramis's National Lampoon's Vacation (the song Holiday Road). He turned down the opportunity as he didn't want to be known as a soundtrack artist. He mentions this on the "Words & Music" interview disk.
Music video
A music video for the song featured a young woman, played by Cindy Harrell, who was being haunted by a ghost portrayed by Parker, roaming a nearly all-black house interior with vibrant neon designs outlining the sparse architectural and industrial features. It also contained footage from the film Ghostbusters , and featured cameos from then famous celebrities such as Chevy Chase, Irene Cara, John Candy, Melissa Gilbert, Nickolas Ashford, Jeffrey Tambor, George Wendt, Al Franken, Danny DeVito, Carly Simon, Peter Falk and Teri Garr, all exclaiming the "Ghostbusters!" line in the song.
The video concludes with Parker and the stars of the film, in full Ghostbuster costume, dancing down the streets of New York City. The Ghostbusters also performed the similar dance in the closing credits to the Real Ghostbusters cartoon series as well as in a trailer for the 2009 Ghostbusters video game.
Due to the ongoing legal battle between Parker and Huey Lewis, the video has not been included in any release of the movie on home video to date.
Cover versions
- A version of the song with a different set of vocals serves as the theme song for the spin-off cartoon series The Real Ghostbusters .
- Run DMC recorded a rap cover for the Ghostbusters II soundtrack
- David Essex covered the song on his 1987 album Central Stage.
- Rapper Mistah F.A.B. samples the song in his 2006 single "Ghost Ride It".
- A cover of the song also appears on the debut album Peep by the Finnish band The Rasmus. It is available on their compilation album Hell of a Collection as well.
- British thrash metal band Xentrix covered the song as a single and released it in various versions on several albums. There was a bit of controversy when they used a parody of the Ghostbusters logo on the single sleeve (with the ghost flicking a V Sign) without permission, but the band later reissued the single with different artwork.
- It has been covered by many other artists, notably many ska bands, as the song's metre lends itself well to a ska beat. A common ska cover available on the Internet is Attaboy Skip's "Ghost Chasing Science Guys", though like many popular songs it is frequently misattributed on peer-to-peer file sharing services, often to Goldfinger, Ska-P or the Mad Caddies.
- A remix of the song serves as the theme song for the cartoon series Extreme Ghostbusters .
- Beatmania IIDX 14: Gold includes a remix of the "Ghostbusters" Theme as a playable track.
- "Ghostbusters" has also been remixed by many DJs, and become one of the more popular songs to use in mashups. Most famously it has been combined with Michael Jackson's "Bad" as "Bad vs Ghostbusters", and Nine Inch Nails' "The Hand That Feeds" as "The Ghost That Feeds".
- The song was also covered by Mickael Turtle, an animated character, in 2005, and reached #5 in France on December 3, 2005, and #23 in Switzerland on January 15, 2006.
- British pop/rock band McFly covered it during their Motion In The Ocean tour in 2006. It appears on the DVD of their show at Wembley during the tour.
- Alvin and the Chipmunks covered the song in their cartoon episode "Who Ghost There?"
- Spritneybears from Norway made a techno version of the song in 2002 as a cd single it also appears on the album A Night at Spritney Mansion
- Rapper The Game, used the song as a sample for the first song on his mixtape Ghost Unit .
- St. Louis based band Ludo performs a cover at their concerts around the month of October.
- A cover by heavy metal / experimental band Vomitron can be found circulating the internet.
- A mashup of Ghostbusters and Busta Rhymes' Dangerous was created by Ludachrist.
- Another mashup of Ghostbusters and AC/DC' Thunderstruck was included on Mash Up Your Bootz Vol.6
- The alternative band Hoobastank recorded a version of the song for Halloween in 2009. A video, which features the band dressed in makeshift Ghostbuster uniforms was also put on Youtube.
- The song was covered on The X Factor (Series 6) by the twins John & Edward
In the media
The song is referenced in both the films and the cartoon series.
In Ghostbusters II , at one point in the movie, Peter Venkman says, "Kitten, I think what I'm saying is that sometimes, shit happens, someone has to deal with it, and who you gonna call?" There was also a scene where a commercial for the company's business featured Janine Melnitz and Louis Tully as a couple being bothered by a ghost. Louis picks up a phone, Janine asks who he is going to call, and the Ghostbusters appear answering "Ghostbusters!" Also, in the birthday party scene at the beginning of the movie, Raymond Stantz and Winston Zeddemore play and sing along to the song.
In an episode of The Real Ghostbusters , the Ghostbusters are trapped in an alternate reality New York populated by ghosts, where a group of ghosts called the Peoplebusters go around the city catching human beings. When they are fleeing from the Peoplebusters, the GBs pass a ghost dining in an outdoor cafe, who witnesses the scene and sings "When there isn't something strange/in your neighborhood/Who you gonna call?/Peoplebusters!"
In TokyoPop's Ghostbusters series, Ray, Peter and Egon eat at a diner with pictures of famous patrons on the wall. Ray comments on the people on the wall, and, finding Ray Parker Jr, remarks that he's never heard of him.
The song appears in Ghostbusters: The Video Game .
St. Louis CBS station KMOV spoofed the song for its mid-1980s "Newsbusters" promos.
Washington, DC NBC station WRC-TV spoofed the song in 1988 with "Broncobusters", which is all about the Washington Redskins and their, at the time, upcoming match up against the Denver Broncos at Super Bowl XXII.
The British band McFly also performed the song as it is one of the lead singer's (Tom Fletcher) favorite songs.
Professional wrestler Jerry Lawler made a parody of the song in Memphis Wrestling entitled "Wimpbusters".
In the 1995 movie Casper when Carrigan and Dibbs are trying to get the ghosts out of the mansion, several pieces of furniture are thrown out of the door, and Dan Aykroyd (dressed as his Ghostbusters character, Dr. Raymond Stantz) is seen running out. He stops by Carrigan and Dibbs and says, "Who you gonna call? Somebody else." He then leaves quickly.
In the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer , Spike asks Buffy, "Who you gonna call?" then follows it with "God, that line is never gonna be usable again, is it?" to which she replies, "Probably not."
Disney produced an abridged music video of the song in the special DTV Monster Hits , set entirely to clips from the 1937 cartoon Lonesome Ghosts .
A musical number on the Kids' WB! show Histeria! , about Theodore Roosevelt and his anti-trust campaign (featured in the episode "The Teddy Roosevelt Show"), was sung to the theme.
In the "Petergeist" episode of Family Guy , Tom Tucker reports that the Griffin family's h
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